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1 online resource (200 pages) |
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Princeton Legacy Library |
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. Introduction: Politics and Science -- TWO. A Prediction Contained, 1976-1979 -- THREE. The Stakes Increase, 1979 -- FOUR. Bureaucratic Politics Takes Over, 1980 -- FIVE. Late 1980: The Prediction Goes Public-in the U.S. -- SIX. Brady's 1981 "Trial": The First Day -- SEVEN. Hardball: The Second Day of the Trial -- EIGHT. The Controversy Continues -- NINE. "Doomsday" Approaches -and Passes -- TEN. Reflections -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Summary |
The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Dr. William Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey gradually came to the conclusion that a catastrophic quake would occur on June 28, 1981, off the coast of central Peru, near the great population center of Lima-Call |
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Cover; Contents |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Earthquake prediction -- Political aspects
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Earthquake prediction -- Political aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Peru
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Peru -- Foreign relations -- United States
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Peru
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Podestá, Bruno, 1946-
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Nigg, Joanne M
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| ISBN |
9781400860203 |
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1400860202 |
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9781322020020 |
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1322020027 |
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